Adventures in Babysitting Parenting “Cas is the one who wants to go all Daddy Day Care. I’m just an advisor.” Castiel refuses to turn one of his newly-human brethren into Child Protective Services, leaving he and Dean to play Dad and... well, Dad.
He should probably stop treating the guy like shit; it wasn’t his fault that Dean was harboring the world’s biggest unrequited crush on him. Dean is a legacy NASCAR driver, and Castiel is his crew chief of three months who hates him. Or maybe he doesn't. It's complicated.
AU after Season 8, episode 6, "Southern Comfort." Dean goes to sleep in a motel room in Texarkana, and he wakes up 17 years old, in his childhood bedroom in Lawrence, Kansas, 1996. He has no idea how he got there, why his parents are still alive, why his brother is an adorable freshman with no memory of his adult life, and why the only ally he has in this place is the angel he left behind in Purgatory – somehow also 17 years old. They have to get out, that's the important thing. Only, falling in love with his angel wasn't a part of the plan....